The yard is deserted, but a local farmer seemed to be taking an interest in what I was up to, and a new bungalow has sprouted up near the front gate. Maybe another time!
When I was a kid, two intact Sea Venoms arrived at the fire dump at Lossiemouth (then HMS Fulmar), and naturally my mate and I thought they were going to be scrapped.
We always carried hacksaws on these illicit excursions, so we sat in the cockpits, and liberated the joysticks, which we sold at school later.
At the time, by brother-in-law was in the Fleet Air Arm, based at Lossie, and unknown to me had been working on these two very Venoms. Just imagine my surprise when he came home in the evening, and told me in his cockney accent “You’ll never guess what happened today! We had got two old cabs ready to fly out to museums, and some ****** has came along and sawed the joysticks out of ’em!”.
I know for sure one of them is now at East Fortune – it arrived there by road (!) from Lossie, and now sports a joystick which looks too new for the rest of the aircraft…
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